2026年8月13日 美国东部时间早上8:08 / 福克斯新闻网
自由民主党议员将该拨款称为“MAGA资金干预民主”，而美国个人权利与表达基金会（FIRE）的格雷格·卢基亚诺夫称英国正处于危机之中
作者：罗伯特·麦格里维，福克斯新闻
第一修正案专家痛批英国言论自由“自由落体”
美国个人权利与表达基金会（FIRE）主席格雷格·卢基亚诺夫称英国的现状是一场“言论自由灾难”。
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美国驻伦敦大使馆将提供最高50万美元的拨款，以强化英美两国的共同价值观，包括言论自由、正当程序和有限政府，但至少有一位英国批评人士拒绝接受这笔拨款，称其为“MAGA资金干预”。
自由民主党议员丽莎·斯马特在接受《卫报》采访时，将这笔拨款描述为“特朗普的MAGA资金干预民主”。
“我们国家有着引以为傲的自由和言论自由传统，”斯马特补充道。
据言论自由捍卫者称，这一传统正受到大洋彼岸的威胁。
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2025年3月21日，英国自由民主党内政事务发言人、哈兹尔格罗夫议员丽莎·斯马特在英格兰哈罗盖特会议中心举行的自由民主党春季大会上向代表们发表讲话。斯马特批评美国为促进英美共同价值观提供的拨款是“特朗普的MAGA资金干预我们的民主”。（伊恩·福赛思/盖蒂图片社）
“英国正处于真正的言论自由灾难之中，而他们似乎甚至不知道发生了什么，”无党派的美国个人权利与表达基金会主席卢基亚诺夫告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
卢基亚诺夫认为，英国当前对言论自由的态度意味着它需要尽一切可能获得帮助。
“无论帮助来自J·D·万斯、特朗普，还是某个在这方面幡然醒悟的未来民主党人，英国都应该接受言论自由方面的帮助，因为他们正处于危机之中，现状难以为继，”卢基亚诺夫告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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美国驻伦敦大使馆针对斯马特的批评指出，自由民主党并未反对拜登时代可被视为具有政治色彩的拨款。
在被指责美国“干预英国民主”时，美国大使馆在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中表示，其“意识到此类担忧，并已停止拜登时代在‘气候正义’、LGBTQ+维权以及基于种族的雇佣举措等分裂性意识形态项目上的公共外交开支——据我们回忆，这些项目都没有收到官员们的此类投诉”。
福克斯新闻数字频道获悉，唐纳德·特朗普总统领导的国务院整体上正在取消拜登时代的指导方针，该方针指示国务院人员向外国官员和政府推行“觉醒”的多样性、公平、包容与无障碍（DEIA）议程。
与此同时，FIRE负责人驳斥了将言论自由等核心价值观视为MATA阵营构建概念的说法。
“当有人认为这些价值观从根本上就带有污点时，这种观点其实是高等教育精英阶层的观念，”他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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近年来英国出台了多项限制国内言论的新法律，其中最引人注目的或许是2023年的《在线安全法案》，该法案赋予英国监管机构对未执行英国日益严格的言论规范的数字平台处以巨额罚款的权力。
卢基亚诺夫将英国的新方向与第一次红色恐慌相提并论，这是美国20世纪20年代初的一段历史时期，当时数千人因涉嫌与共产主义有关的罪名被捕。
“我总是需要结合背景来看。美国第一次红色恐慌时期——1919年和1920年——我们每年逮捕约2000人，这已经很糟糕了。而英国每年的逮捕人数约为1.2万，而英国的人口大约是当时美国的一半。他们正处于自由落体状态，而且对此完全否认，”卢基亚诺夫说。
去年在英国上议院就在线通信逮捕和言论自由问题进行辩论之前，上议院图书馆援引《泰晤士报》的一项分析发现，2023年有超过1.2万人因两项通信法案被捕。
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英美两国都允许当局起诉暴力威胁，但英国没有与美国第一修正案直接对应的条款，还将某些被视为“严重冒犯”的通信行为定为犯罪。
2025年7月10日，美国个人权利与表达基金会主席格雷格·卢基亚诺夫在爱达荷州太阳谷举行的艾伦公司太阳谷会议上午场会议入场。卢基亚诺夫在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，将英国日益严苛的言论审查法称为“疯狂”且“难以为继”。（凯文·迪奇/盖蒂图片社）
卢基亚诺夫认为，英国过多的逮捕人数“甚至不包括大量非刑事仇恨事件，以及他们目前正试图压制的内容——顺便说一句，这在美国也通过他们的在线法律发生着”。
“所以英国正处于真正的言论自由灾难之中，而他们似乎甚至不知道发生了什么，”他补充道。
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根据英国政府的定义，非刑事仇恨事件是指“涉及或被指涉及行为人（‘主体’）的行为，该行为被行为人以外的人认为——全部或部分——是出于对具有特定特征群体的敌意或偏见”。
据FIRE称，英国政府会创建参与此类非刑事仇恨事件的人员登记册，该组织称这是“多此一举的审查”。
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“非刑事仇恨言论事件可能只是有人说‘我们希望减少移民，因为这会推高犯罪率’这类言论。这是一个经验性问题。如果你是一个自由的人或自由的社会，你应该能够真正展开这场辩论。你应该能够展示数据，更好地说服他人，等等。你不能仅仅因为提出这个论点就将其定为非法，”卢基亚诺夫告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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“我认为，如果英国能够振作起来，它本可以贡献良多。从本质上讲，我认为它正处于一种摒弃曾让它一度辉煌的一切的过程中。如果我们能够帮助一位朋友——即使他们不知道自己需要帮助——当他们确实需要帮助时，我认为我们绝对应该这么做。但我真的不知道英国目前如何才能更好地认清自己，因为目前并没有传递出这样的信息：英国当下发生的一切是难以为继的，”卢基亚诺夫说。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系斯马特请其进一步置评。
UK ‘in free fall’ on free speech, expert warns as British MP brands Trump admin grant ‘MAGA money meddling’
August 13, 2026 8:08am EDT / Fox News
Liberal Democrat calls the funding ‘MAGA money meddling in democracy’ while FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff says the UK is in crisis
By Robert McGreevy, Fox News
First Amendment expert blasts UK’s free speech ‘free fall’
Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), blasted the state of affairs in the United Kingdom as a “free speech disaster.”
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The U.S. Embassy in London is offering up to $500,000 in grants to bolster shared values between the United States and the United Kingdom, including freedom of speech, due process and limited government, but at least one British critic is rejecting the offered funding as “MAGA money meddling.”
Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart framed the grant as “Trump’s MAGA money meddling in democracy,” in a quote to The Guardian.
“We have a proud tradition of liberty and freedom of speech in this country,” Smart added.
That tradition, according to free speech defenders, is under threat across the pond.
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Lisa Smart, Liberal Democrats’ spokesperson for Home Affairs and MP for Hazel Grove, addresses delegates during the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference at Harrogate Convention Centre on March 21, 2025, in Harrogate, England. Smart criticized a U.S. grant to foster shared values between the U.S. and the U.K. as “Trump’s MAGA money meddling in our democracy.”(Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
“It is a true free speech disaster in the U.K., and they don’t even seem to know what’s happening,” Greg Lukianoff, president of the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), told Fox News Digital.
Lukianoff posited that the U.K.’s current attitude to free speech means it needs all the help that it can get.
“Whether the help is coming from JD Vance or Trump or maybe some future Democrat who sees the light on this stuff, the U.K. should be accepting help on freedom of speech because they are in crisis, and it’s unsustainable,” Lukianoff told Fox News Digital.
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The U.S. Embassy in London, in response to Smart’s criticisms, noted that Liberal Democrats did not push back on Biden-era grants that could be viewed as political.
In response to the accusation that the U.S. is “meddling in British democracy,” the U.S. embassy said in a statement to Fox News Digital, it “is mindful of such concerns, and has discontinued Biden-era public diplomacy spending on divisive ideological projects such as ‘climate justice,’ LGBTQ activism, and race-based hiring initiatives — none of which, to our recollection, raised such complaints from officials.”
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Meanwhile, the FIRE boss rejected the notion that foundational values like free speech are MAGA constructions.
“When it comes to the idea of these being fundamentally tainted ideas, that is very much a higher education, elite-educated concept,” he told Fox News Digital.
Supporters of British activist Tommy Robinson walk through central London waving flags during a “Free speech” march, on Sept. 13, 2025.(CARLOS JASSO/AFP via Getty Images)
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The U.K. has imposed a number of new laws restricting speech in the country in recent years, perhaps most notably the 2023 Online Safety Act, which gives the country’s regulators the power to slap hefty fines on digital platforms if they don’t enforce the U.K.’s increasingly stricter speech codes.
Lukianoff compared the U.K.’s new direction to the first Red Scare, the period in U.S. history in the early 1920s that saw thousands arrested on charges related to suspected communist ties.
“I always have to put this in context. In the first Red Scare in the United States — 1919 and 1920 — we arrested about 2,000 people per year, and that’s bad. They’re arresting around 12,000 a year in a country that’s about 50% smaller than the U.S. was at the time. They are in free fall and also in complete denial of it,” Lukianoff said.
Ahead of a House of Lords debate last year on arrests for online communications and free speech, the House of Lords Library cited a Times of London analysis that found more than 12,000 arrests in 2023 under two communications laws.
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Both the U.S. and U.K. allow authorities to prosecute threats of violence, but the U.K. has no direct equivalent to the First Amendment and also criminalizes certain communications deemed “grossly offensive.”
Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, walks to a morning session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 10, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Lukianoff, in an interview with Fox News Digital, called the U.K.’s increasingly censorious speech laws “insane” and “unsustainable.”(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The outsized number of arrests in the U.K., Lukianoff argued, don’t “even include the large number of non-crime hate incidents or the stuff that they’re currently trying to suppress, also in the United States, by the way, through their online laws.”
“So it is a true free speech disaster in the U.K., and they don’t even seem to know what’s happening,” he added.
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A non-crime hate incident, according to the U.K. government, is defined as “an incident or alleged incident which involves or is alleged to involve an act by a person (‘the subject’) which is perceived by a person other than the subject to be motivated — wholly or partly — by hostility or prejudice towards persons with a particular characteristic.”
The government, according to FIRE, creates a registry of people who participate in these NCHIs, which the organization calls “censorship with extra steps.”
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“Non-criminal hate speech incidents can be anything from just someone saying something like, we want to reduce immigration because it raises crime rates. That’s an empirical question. If you’re a free person or free society, you should be able to actually have that debate. You should be able to show numbers. You better persuade, et cetera. You can’t just deem it illegal to have that argument,” Lukianoff told Fox News Digital.
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“I think that there’s so much the U.K. could have to offer if it would get off its own feet. Essentially, I think that it’s in a process of kind of rejecting everything that made it great at one point. And if we can help out a friend — even when they don’t know they’re in need — when they’re in need, I think we absolutely should. But I really don’t know how Britain can get a better view of itself at the moment, because currently the message isn’t getting through that what’s going on there right now isn’t sustainable,” Lukianoff said.
Fox News Digital contacted Smart for further comment.